When did you first hear Pearl Jam and when became a fan?

ponner1us

Lollapalooza, 1992, Montage Mountain

blondieblue227

wow sarah. .....just wow.

SarahLou

@catwomen1 - yeah glasgow maybe isnt as nice as you think! stabbing capitol of europe! my brother knows he it was his influence that got me into them but maybe not about me hiding outside his door! however the manchester gig will be REALLY special for me cause me and my brother are gonna go together! sooo excited!

isnt it amazing that even when you are so young music can just hit you...and stick! my oldest sister was a huge beatles fan and moved down to london when she was 17 to live for 6 months in a bid to get closer to them...she stole Paul Mccartneys phone book from outside his house....she still has it! even though it technically wasnt his phone book yet, as it was still lying outside!

dimitrispearljam

SarahLou wrote:

@catwomen1 - yeah glasgow maybe isnt as nice as you think! stabbing capitol of europe! my brother knows he it was his influence that got me into them but maybe not about me hiding outside his door! however the manchester gig will be REALLY special for me cause me and my brother are gonna go together! sooo excited!

isnt it amazing that even when you are so young music can just hit you...and stick! my oldest sister was a huge beatles fan and moved down to london when she was 17 to live for 6 months in a bid to get closer to them...she stole Paul Mccartneys phone book from outside his house....she still has it! even though it technically wasnt his phone book yet, as it was still lying outside!

problem with my sister,,no one remember who said the other,,"u lishen this new group,pearl jam,,i just lishen a song named "jeremy",,is awesome..
i say i told her..she said,,no i told u bro first,,is a mess

Badnercalabrese

Pearl Jam was always a band i was interested in.
Growing up as a younger kid i never truely listened but i just considerd them to be a "cool" band because unfortunately i was only a young lad during the grunge era but i looked through the CD's of my cousins and my uncle...my uncle especially was a PJ fanatic and i always figured i'd give them a chance some day.

That day came when i decided to buy...guess what album!
TEN! I was about 15-16 at the time and i remember a few months later PJ came to my hometown (Kitchener, Canada)

It was the best show i'd ever seen even though i must admit...at the time i didn't know that many songs outside of Ten....Ever since then i haven't really looked back...PJ has been my favourite band ever since.

I'm really happy that i got to see them for a second time live (this time as an established real fan! haha) when they played their second show in Toronto to kick off their most recent self titled album in 06.

I hate to say that...Pearl Jam i don't think can make an album anywhere close to ten (according to MY ears and mind) but at the same time..it would be greedy for me to be so disappointed because i don't think all the guys would be standing here today if they still made music like in Ten.

dustinpardue

on a bus on the way to Orlando to perform at Disney World in 92. I was wanting to listen to 2 Live Crew but this dude kept playing the Pearl jam cd.

JV130312

Summer 1991. Saw them live in State College right after with Chili Peppers and Smashing Pumpkins.

dimitrispearljam

JV130312 wrote:

Summer 1991. Saw them live in State College right after with Chili Peppers and Smashing Pumpkins.

thats must be the experience....!!!

Badnercalabrese

yeah now that must have been amazing! :shock:

Catwoman1

SarahLou wrote:

@catwomen1 - yeah glasgow maybe isnt as nice as you think! stabbing capitol of europe! my brother knows he it was his influence that got me into them but maybe not about me hiding outside his door! however the manchester gig will be REALLY special for me cause me and my brother are gonna go together! sooo excited!

isnt it amazing that even when you are so young music can just hit you...and stick! my oldest sister was a huge beatles fan and moved down to london when she was 17 to live for 6 months in a bid to get closer to them...she stole Paul Mccartneys phone book from outside his house....she still has it! even though it technically wasnt his phone book yet, as it was still lying outside!

That is really cool sharing the experience in Manchester with your brother. I know you'll have a terrific time! That's also cool about your sister & Paul's phone book -- definitely something that I would have loved to have done!!!

blondieblue227

SarahLou wrote:

isnt it amazing that even when you are so young music can just hit you...and stick!

i've thought a lot about that too. what's up with that?
every now and then i find a 'new' band i like. ex. kings of leon, mishka. but it’s never with the same intensity as music I liked/still like as a kid.

Keep on Jammin

I remember seeing them sing Alive on SNL and then I "borrowed" my brother's cassette of Ten when he wasn't home. I was a freshman in high school and was forever hooked.

cindyl

cindyl has been a fan since 10 release
deadmantalking became a fan in 06 -he had bought 2 tix for the pgh show but gave his away so his daughter who is a fan could go with her mom, then he started listening to the bands live cd's and realized -these guys rock,then he watched the MSG dvd and was hooked.[and yeah he bought another tic]now other than old neil, and janes ,pj is is the only thing on his playlist,drove to dc last summer and balt this year for ed, -making up for lost time.

nxnastos

I was not really into Pearl Jam or that style of music, just liked whatever was popular on the radio but I was into rap and dj mix tapes, boy did that change quickly. I went to my first ever concert which just so happened to be PJ on 6/27/98 at alpine valley! The next day after that concert I put all my mix cds and rap cds aside to collect dust for the rest of their existence and I went out and bought everything PJ that I could find up to that point!! I have not stop listening to them since then. Not 1 day goes by where I dont at least turn on a PJ song. Ive been to 24 shows since that day!

Thank God for Pearl Jam!!

Matt rules

"Became a TC member in 1998, (so happy I spent my birthday money and did that!). I went to my First PJ show in 2000 at Mansfield, started at the lawn. As years went on, got closer and closer to the stage, Been in the front row, 2nd and just recently met Ed."

This is fantastic!! I'm scratching my head though because I've been a member since 1996 and the best I've done is the 15th row. How are you getting closer and closer? Is there something i'm not doing?

Thanks.

mm

ScottBravesFan

I heard them when I was a kid I saw the Evenflow video on MTV. Had to be about 10 or 11 thought it was cool. Became a huge fan when I was in 6th grade around 1994 with VS. and Vitalogy out became a huge fan. All of my friends were big rock music fans in middle school and it was a great time to be a rock music fan in 1994 1995. I have been in the ten club since 1998.

ScottBravesFan

Matt rules wrote:

"Became a TC member in 1998, (so happy I spent my birthday money and did that!). I went to my First PJ show in 2000 at Mansfield, started at the lawn. As years went on, got closer and closer to the stage, Been in the front row, 2nd and just recently met Ed."

This is fantastic!! I'm scratching my head though because I've been a member since 1996 and the best I've done is the 15th row. How are you getting closer and closer? Is there something i'm not doing?

Thanks.

mm

The closest you have been is 15th row? Man they used to do it by seniority my buddy Logan has been in the Ten club since like 1995 and he used to get first row every time. I've been in since 1998 and I used to be close as hell when they did it by seniority I would get like 10th row in Atlanta which has a huge Ten club population. Unfortunately my number got reset because I was late renewing my membership one year because of financial hardships so I got a new number which is pretty high now. I was only on the 23 row in Columbia, SC in 2008 so I was pretty pissed. Although it's pretty cool that this message board still has me as a member since 1998, wish they would give me my original number back.

Catwoman1

blondieblue227 wrote:

SarahLou wrote:

isnt it amazing that even when you are so young music can just hit you...and stick!

i've thought a lot about that too. what's up with that?
every now and then i find a 'new' band i like. ex. kings of leon, mishka. but it’s never with the same intensity as music I liked/still like as a kid.

It may still happen. Pearl Jam hit me like a ton of bricks and I was in my late 30's.

blondieblue227

that's good to hear.
maybe it'll happen for me then too. i need some music related excitment in my life right now!

mj351

Some awesome stories here,
I cant remember the very start but I do remember the very first time I saw a copy of TEN down at my local basketball stadium, on a weekend, I think it was sunny that day with a light breeze, someone had just bought it and was showing it around. Must have been early 92 I guess.
Fast forward to 93, end of Year 11, a group of us went down to a mates holiday house at Philip Island and Vs was on constant rotation, and i mean constant, all day all night, mixed with some alcohol and no parents (and some girls doing the same thing next door) and it was one of those times I will never ever forget, I wish I could get that feeling back...